Category: Crisis Response
News and articles pertaining to the pandemic and the economic recovery
News LA County Allows Breweries to Reopen for Onsite Sales
Providing huge relief to brewers in California’s most populated county, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to change its reopening guidelines to allow breweries to use a third-party vendor for food service. The county had been the strictest in the state, lagging behind the statewide guidelines and forcing most breweries to close for onsite sales.
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News Report Says Beer Industry Will Lose 651,000 Jobs By End of Year
The Beer Institute, the Brewers Association, the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the American Beverage Licensees released a report today from a leading economic firm showing more than 651,000 jobs supported by the U.S. beer industry will be lost by the end of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These job losses include more than 3,600 brewing jobs, 1,800 distributing jobs and 400,000 retail-related jobs.
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News CDC Releases ‘Guiding Principles’ for Reopening Bars and Restaurants
As restaurants and bars resume operations in some areas of the United States, CDC has offered considerations for ways in which operators can protect employees, customers, and communities and slow the spread of COVID-19. Restaurants and bars can determine, in collaboration with state and local health officials, whether and how to implement these considerations, making adjustments to meet the needs and circumstances of the local community. Implementation should be guided by what is feasible, practical, acceptable, and tailored to the needs of each community. These considerations are meant to supplement—not replace—any state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules, and regulations with which businesses must comply.
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News Maintaining Customer Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era
Craft Brewing Business updates their series on customer service tips in the brewery tasting room to include new COVID-19 related procedures. Past editions featured primarily engagement and environment based on observations made while visiting breweries coast to coast. The updated feedback includes comments on everything from customer perception on sanitation/cleanliness to food safety to social distancing.
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News Florida Governor Holds Roundtable with Brewers and Bar Owners
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Department of Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Halsey Beshears held a roundtable with St. Petersburg-area bar and brewery owners to reassure them they are working towards an end goal of reopening establishments like theirs across the state.
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News California Lays Out New Blueprint for Reopening Breweries and On-Premise
California Governor Gavin Newson laid out in detail a new plan for reopening the state’s economy including new details for the hospitality and alcohol sectors. The new plan will attempt to avoid the spike in COVID-19 cases after the state reopened much of the economy in July.
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News On-Premise Business Remains Flat
With all states now in some degree of ‘open,’ but operating under health department restrictions, the on-premise business has entered a period of finding ways to maximize capacity and encouraging more consumers to return, while counterbalanced by measures to protect consumers and staff.
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News ‘Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines’ Cancelled for 2021
It is with no surprise, as event cancellations begin to extend into 2021, that Bill and Laura Lodge, founders if the well-known and respected Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines, have announced the cancellation of the event scheduled for January 7-9, 2021 in Breckenridge, CO.
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News Can Shortage Concerns Grow
Everyone in the industry knows that aluminum beverage cans have been in high demand, even before the virus crisis. With the growing popularity of canned wine and cocktails, combined with booming sales of hard seltzer, the pressure has been on the can manufacturers to increase supply. But when the COVID-19 crisis forced beer out of kegs due to the closure of the on-premise business, most breweries, large and small, pivoted to canning more beer than before to sell into the off-premise.
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News Yelp Says Over 12,000 Restaurants Have Closed Permanently
In March, restaurants had the highest number of business closures, compared to other industries, and have continued to close at high rates. Of the businesses listed on Yelp that have closed, 17% are restaurants, and 53% of those restaurant closures are indicated as permanent.
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News TX Guild Survey Says a Third of Breweries Won’t Survive if No Relief Comes
A July survey conducted by the Texas Craft Brewers Guild found that one in three Texas craft breweries believe they will have to permanently close in less than three months without some change to the current shutdown order or new economic relief options. Two in three believe they will not make it to the end of the year under current conditions. The guild further says that the economic and public health crisis brought on by COVID-19 and Governor Abbott’s June 26th shutdown threatens to decimate the Texas craft brewing industry.
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